I was going to do a quick video blog, but then I saw an image of myself and decided against it. I look a bit frumpy at the moment.

I think the quiz went well. I was certainly in a better mood once it was over. I even introduced myself to a classmate on the subway and had a long chat with another guy I'd met during orientation week. Drew and I went to the Jersey Shore (do you capitalize that?) and now I'm feeling -- once again -- like I'm behind and I'll never catch up.

So I probably shouldn't be writing this blog entry.

I studied so much for Friday's quiz that I didn't read the handout notes for the leg and the ankle and the foot. Which we'll be covering in tomorrow morning's conference. It's only thirteen pages, but there's so much information in every sentence it'll probably take me four or five hours to digest it properly. Then I'll get to conference and he'll throw up a powerpoint slide and say "What's this structure?" and I'll have no fucking clue what he's talking about. And yet half the class will mumble the answer as though it's too obvious to waste their breath with a fully articulated response.

Okay, I've had too much caffeine. The anxiety level is a bit too high in here.

Back to work now.

Oh, there was one line in the handout notes for the lungs that I thought was funny (warning: funny is obviously a relative term when used in reference to a gross anatomy handout): "Obviously as any fluid accumulates within the pleural cavity it will compress the lung and embarrass respiration." Embarrass respiration? I kept staring at that phrase. What the hell? Embarrass? But, in fact, my paperback Webster's dictionary listed "to impede; hinder" as the second definition of the word.

Yeah that's really not funny. I found it amusing in the moment, though.